Tag archive for ‘Entertainment’
The Avengers
The Avengers Runtime 142 minutes OK for children It’s understandable how this film could have cost almost a quarter of a billion dollars to make. The special effects are incredible and it’s got a huge, A-list cast. But, except for the fact that it will probably mint the money, this is little more than 2 [...]
Safe
Safe Runtime 95 minutes. Not for children. When you pay your money to see a Jason Statham movie, you are paying to see Jason dispatch lots of bad guys single-handed. That’s what you get here, in spades. Mei (newcomer Catherine Chan) is a ten-year-old math prodigy who is brutally taken from her family in China [...]
The Golden Years, Ebb and Tide of Life
They call it the Golden Years … “come grow old with me, the best is yet to be….” Or is it? In Eventide, now playing at the Secret Rose Theatre, “growing older gracefully,” a theme covered in a myriad of plays, musicals, films, songs, and poems … is explored in depth. The two main characters, [...]
The Five-Year Engagement
The Five-Year Engagement Runtime 122 minutes. OK for children. “OK for children.” Who woulda thought that a film by smutmeister Judd Apatow, who favors crudity, genital jokes, and bathroom humor, would make a movie that was “OK for children?” Who woulda linked classy Emily Blunt with an Apatow movie? But that’s what we have here. [...]
Headhunters
Headhunters Run time 100 minutes. Not for children. Jo Nesbø is a Norwegian writer of thrillers, most of which feature his protagonist, Harry Hole. This was his first book, written in 2008, in which Hole does not appear. Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie, one of Norway’s most popular actors) tells us right at the outset that [...]
Any experienced restaurateur knows that the first couple of years are critical and traumatic
It helps if the economy is booming and the location is a high traffic hot spot. Maximilian’s in the No Ho Arts District had neither advantage but the unique venture does have the boundless enthusiasm and experience of talented Chef Laszlo who had to make it the hard way with favorable word of mouth and [...]
Voices Thru Time and Eternity
Voices Thru Time and Eternity The majesty and redemptive power of music was performed at California State University Northridge by the San Fernando Valley and Premiere Chamber Chorale on Saturday, April 14. The theme was Easter, encompassing the spring season, one of rebirth and renewal. The musical selections varied from Bach to Debussy. The chorus [...]
Marley
Marley Runtime 145 minutes. OK for children. When I first went to the Virgin Islands to conduct business there several decades ago, I was warned about the inhabitants’ calypso patois. After I arrived, while it was sometimes difficult to comprehend, it was musical to listen to. Whenever they spoke I felt as if I were [...]
The Rocky Road of Dating, Love & Marriage
A secret ‘guilty pleasure’ of mine: indulgently eating a pint of haagen dazs Rocky Road ice cream, while watching re-run after re-run of HBO’s famed “Sex and the City.” Such is the equivalent, now onstage at the Mirror Theatre in Noho, “Marry, F***, or Kill,” written by Brad T. Gottfred and Joanne Mosconi. As the [...]
Everything’s Coming Up Roses for Feed the Roses Fundraiser
On Saturday, April 14, at the Crown City Theatre, a little bit of cabaret, theater, music, dance, and a lot of magic will come to Los Angeles for a spring fundraiser/benefit for the Three Roses Players and One in the Cannes film production company. Maggie Grant, Artistic Director, promises that the evening should be a [...]
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